If phones get bigger maybe I will actually be able to use one. I get that people with eyes and hands that work normally dig tiny phones and tablets. But I hope there will be more and more oversized options for those of us for whom that is not true. It is possible to have bad enough eyes that even with glasses you have trouble seeing well. And there are all sorts of things that can make using your hands more difficult.
I'm so sorry, but if it makes you feel any better, my fun-time-Buffy party night involved watching a robot throw Spike through a window, so if you want to trade... no wait, I wouldn't give up that memory for anything.
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Typo Boy - Sep 10, 2014 7:21:48 am PDT #24052 of 25496
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.
meara - Sep 10, 2014 11:21:37 am PDT #24053 of 25496
Yeah, it's hard enough to get girl clothes with pockets, never mind BIG pockets!
tommyrot - Sep 11, 2014 4:47:23 am PDT #24054 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
For $50 less than the price of an Apple Watch, you could get this: Amazon.com: Invicta Men's 5514 Subaqua Collection Gold-Tone Chronograph Watch: Invicta: Watches
List price is $1,995, now only $299.99!
Looking at it kinda' makes my eyes hurt. (I'm not fond of gold or gold-plated things.)
§ ita § - Sep 11, 2014 9:09:08 am PDT #24055 of 25496
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Two grand and all you get is TONE? That must be some fancy engineering.
I'm a cheap watch enthusiast--Fossil keeps me quite happy (FIRE! I have a FIRE watch!)
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 1:51:23 pm PDT #24056 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
So....
I have a new 42" Vizio smart TV, and a new Sony HDMI receiver, both gotten at insane discounts (less than $500 for both). This was the toy Halloween bought me this year.
However, both the TV and the Receiver support an Audio Return Channel, but I cannot get my receiver to play sound from the TV without a second connection.
Anybody have any helpful advice? It's making me want to cry.
Tom Scola - Sep 12, 2014 2:20:03 pm PDT #24057 of 25496
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.
Sean, is this from a cable box, or over-the-air from an antenna?
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 2:23:00 pm PDT #24058 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Neither. I don't have either of those, so all I want the ARC for (for the moment) is to watch Netflix from the TV app.
Or a music app or something.
javachik - Sep 12, 2014 2:34:42 pm PDT #24059 of 25496
Our wings are not tired.
Sean, a weird thing for me, since HDMI is supposed to also send sound, is that with my TV and receiver, I still need to run a separate audio line (digital optical cable). I have no idea why, but it works fine once I have it in. So try that?
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 2:39:18 pm PDT #24060 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
I have an optical cable I can use, but the point of an Audio Return Channel on both the TV and receiver is that I shouldn't have to do that. The TV is supposed to be able to send sound back down the one cable, and the receiver is supposed to be able to hear it.
Sean K - Sep 12, 2014 2:40:59 pm PDT #24061 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
And both of my devices claim to do the ARC thing. I'm inclined to believe them, I'm just doing something wrong.
Of course, the Sony manual is so poorly written that it makes me want to go kick people who work for Sony.